The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
SINCLAIR LEWISYou have more people that love you than you know.
More Sinclair Lewis Quotes
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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